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Daniel Damiano

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Daniel Damiano is an Award-winning Playwright, Screenwriter, Poet, Novelist and Actor based in Brooklyn, NY. His plays have been performed throughout many areas of the U.S., as well as London, England and Sydney & Melbourne, Australia. His acclaimed play DAY OF THE DOG premiered with St. Louis Actors' Studio in 2013 and subsequently transferred to 59E59 in NYC in 2014. It was a 2013 St. Louis Critics Choice Best Play Nominee, and was published by Broadway Play Publishing in 2018. Other more recent productions of his work include HARMONY PARK ("4 Stars" - Detroit Free Press, with Detroit Repertory Theatre), THE LEPERS (Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC) and his acclaimed solo plays AMERICAN TRANQUILITY (which has been lauded in both NYC and Washi Daniel Damiano is an Award-winning Playwright, Screenwriter, Poet, Novelist and Actor based in Brooklyn, NY. His plays have been performed throughout many areas of the U.S., as well as London, England and Sydney & Melbourne, Australia. His acclaimed play DAY OF THE DOG premiered with St. Louis Actors' Studio in 2013 and subsequently transferred to 59E59 in NYC in 2014. It was a 2013 St. Louis Critics Choice Best Play Nominee, and was published by Broadway Play Publishing in 2018. Other more recent productions of his work include HARMONY PARK ("4 Stars" - Detroit Free Press, with Detroit Repertory Theatre), THE LEPERS (Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC) and his acclaimed solo plays AMERICAN TRANQUILITY (which has been lauded in both NYC and Washington DC) and, most recently, ONE WITH THE CURRENT, which had an acclaimed run in NYC in the fall of '23. His new play THE WILD BOAR was a Finalist for the 2022 Dayton Playhouse Futurefest, and was 2019 Finalist for both the Woodward/Newman Award and the Janet & Bruce Bunch Award. He has been the recipient of the Christopher Brian Wolk Award for Playwriting, in addition to being a 2013 Nominee for the Pushcart Poetry Prize and a Finalist for the 2012 Arts & Letters Prize for Drama. His debut novel, THE WOMAN IN THE SUN HAT was published in March 2021 through fandango 4 Art House (Seattle Book Review Recommendation). His short story, "The Gift of What For" is included in Palm Circle Press' Short Story Anthology 2021. His poetry book, 104 DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC, was released in September 2021, by fandango 4 Art House. His poetry has been published in Gyroscope Review, Quagmire Magazine, Curlew Quarterly, Crooked Teeth Literary Magazine, Newtown Literary Journal, New Voices Anthology, Cloudbank and HotMetal Press. His second novel, GRAPHIC NATURE, was released in December 2022. In the Summer of 2022, fandango 4 Art House released PLAYS BY DANIEL DAMIANO, Volume 1, the first collection of Mr. Damiano's full-length plays ("Harmony Park", "The Golden Year" & "The Dishonorable Discharge of Private Pitts"), and in June 2025, PLAYS BY DANIEL DAMIANO, Volume 2 (Short Plays). In May 2024, Bottlecap Press released Damiano's second book of poetry, THE CONCRETE JUNGLE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS. His third novel, ADVICE FROM A CAT, was released in October 2024, through fandango 4 Art House. In December, he was the recipient of the 2024 David A. Einhorn Playwriting Prize. ...more

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	The Best Men's Monologues from New Plays, 2019 (Applause Acting Series) by Lawrence Harbison (Editor), Michael McKeever, Christopher Demos-Brown it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2019 (Applause Acting Series) by Lawrence Harbison (Editor), Arleen Hutton, Michael McKeever 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	104 Days of the Pandemic: Poems 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Long Road of a Playwright to His First Published Collection of Plays

Many will say that writing a play, not to mention a story or a novel, takes a lot - and it does. It takes talent, focus and inspiration, and maybe some other things too boring to mention here. But for anyone who has been writing plays for a while, and I admittedly have, the most challenging element is the aftermath of a play's composition. Yes, you have it written and maybe can put up a staged rea Read more of this blog post »

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